Spot the significance.....not a trick question !

As I say not a trick question but just £12 comes into it............
Most of us are from Plymouth
Money I cant say anymore lol

Ok one more....Terry Wogan

The seller won the lottery a few years ago?

mouldyoldgoat wrote:

The seller won the lottery a few years ago?

Yep well done.....

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Part of his winnings he opened a pine shop in the Armada centre but it collapsed after about a year
I see his adverts for 2nd hand furniture often on FB sales Groups

Just googled him. Won £2.8 million, money lasted 10 years and his marriage to a topless model lasted 12-weeks.

Found this about lottery winners in and around Plymouth...

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I remembered the name. There have been a few big winners who you remember like him, the lotto lout Michael Carroll and Lee Ryan the ex con.

I knew him back in the day, good antiques dealer and he had a pine stripping place down in Hoegate St near the barbican. The "glamour model" was some tart who got her tits out to everybody bar poor Mike. She was an out and out gold digger and fleeced him good and proper.He lost loads of money on the music industry (sort of) I'm pretty sure he bought the Cooperage but he backed a band from Plymouth who were proper old school and he built a recording studio and none of it took off. The stories of him losing all his money were a bit fabricated as he was getting loads of requests for a few grand here and a few grand there, he had done a lot of his money but I would imagine he's still quite comfortable.
Not sure if it's a sad story he had a ball while it lasted and his biggest fault was believing in people who weren't as honest as he was. I always had time for him.

Earwegoagain wrote:

I knew him back in the day, good antiques dealer and he had a pine stripping place down in Hoegate St near the barbican. The "glamour model" was some tart who got her tits out to everybody bar poor Mike. She was an out and out gold digger and fleeced him good and proper.He lost loads of money on the music industry (sort of) I'm pretty sure he bought the Cooperage but he backed a band from Plymouth who were proper old school and he built a recording studio and none of it took off. The stories of him losing all his money were a bit fabricated as he was getting loads of requests for a few grand here and a few grand there, he had done a lot of his money but I would imagine he's still quite comfortable.
Not sure if it's a sad story he had a ball while it lasted and his biggest fault was believing in people who weren't as honest as he was. I always had time for him.

She got breast implants and a house out of him, he did buy the Cooperage.

PatDunne wrote:

Earwegoagain wrote:

I knew him back in the day, good antiques dealer and he had a pine stripping place down in Hoegate St near the barbican. The "glamour model" was some tart who got her tits out to everybody bar poor Mike. She was an out and out gold digger and fleeced him good and proper.He lost loads of money on the music industry (sort of) I'm pretty sure he bought the Cooperage but he backed a band from Plymouth who were proper old school and he built a recording studio and none of it took off. The stories of him losing all his money were a bit fabricated as he was getting loads of requests for a few grand here and a few grand there, he had done a lot of his money but I would imagine he's still quite comfortable.
Not sure if it's a sad story he had a ball while it lasted and his biggest fault was believing in people who weren't as honest as he was. I always had time for him.

She got breast implants and a house out of him, he did buy the Cooperage.

Yes they were quite pneumatic. He used to drive around town in a Silver soft top Mercedes of the era with her complete with fedora and Cuban Cigar looking and smiling like JR Ewing

How much were average terrace houses back in 1995  ??
Depending on area of course but half decent ones £65,000  ??   Everything easy with hindsight as Reddit investors have found out today over short squeezes on Wall St that not only do stocks go up in a straight line lol they come back down likewise

Say Antonucci had bought 10 houses (jump in Ears here) imagine one the capital increase in value over the next 25 years even allowing for CGT at some point plus of course the rental income each month

Set up for life

But he didn’t he pissed his money up the wall and on new tits for the girlfriend.

mouldyoldgoat wrote:

But he didn’t he pissed his money up the wall and on new tits for the girlfriend.

New Titties couldnt have run more than £5k even in this country back in 1995
Even whoppers

£2.8 million in 1995 is the equivalant of £4.85 million today (apparently) how the hell do you burn through all that. Perhaps he didnt